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Thanks for sharing Larry. Congratulations to you and yours my friend. 👍🏽

Wow, I arrived in ‘84, non military. Fell in love with it too. Met my future wife. Daughter born there. Left in ‘92. My uncle fought there.

Thank you for your service.

I was there in 1989 at camp Red Cloud

Thank you for your service would you go back today to fight today

Thank you to your grandpa please... my debt is inestimable

@@larrybraswell2368 Hug Gramps for us all.

Record all his stories if possible. Keep the audio files. Write them down too. My grandpa was a tank commander in Korea and he passed in 2016. I kick myself for not interviewing him more before he passed. He didn't like to talk about it much, but now those stories are lost forever.

My father was a US Marine in WW2. He made four landings in the Central Pacific. When Korea started some of his WW2 buddies came by to visit and tried to get him to reenlist with them. He declined their offer. They kept in touch by US mail until his best friend finally stopped writing. My father assumed he was killed in Korea as he never heard from him again. My mother's brother was in the US Army in Korea, in supply, so he never saw any combat. My father's sister's husband wasn't so lucky. He was in the 1st Marine Div and was wounded in Korea. He was awarded a Silver Star and of course a Purple Heart. Of course this was yet another avoidable war as a result of bad foreign policy.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 We will never know what the wars in Korea/Vietnam did to stop the flow of Communism. It is a scourge. I'm not so sure these wars were unavoidable.

@@sirchromiumdowns2015 thats funny because Hocimin loved USa, wanted to be friend with USA, and be their allies. He declared indenpendence while american major from inteligence assisting him. Then came French and USa decided to enforce colonialism on Vietnam, then steal half of Vietnam by making puppet goverment. Btw, ho Ci min tried to meet american president already in Paris in 1918/1919 to lobby for indenpendence and freedom for his people! And was denied. And after war, USa began to trade with that commie country :D :D :D :D (that much for containment of communism).

​@@jiridrapal7512 While there's undoubtedly been many failed ventures such as Vietnam and Afghanistan, regarding countries like South Korea and Taiwan, which are one of the world's most wealthiest and advanced democracies thanks to the same Anti-communist foreign policies, one must think what worse could've happened, especially considering the current DPRK would be in charge of the entirety of Korea had there been no interventions

@@gotohyoshihisa3971 nothing worse would have happened. Korea would be united. It would have zero impact onto the world.

Thank you for ur service

Thank you for your service. That is my uncle in the red tie - Sgt Reyna

I went to Korea with the USMC in 2013, best people ever, everyone was so damn nice

Of course you were. A servant is always conditioned to fawn over the master.

That's what she said.

Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

Thank you brother, your welcome to share any story you have with us anytime.

thank you for your war crimes

@@phunkracy I suppose you say this to anyone who has served in any military right?

My dad told me a story how the family had a good friend that was a psychic..my dad's name was dickie..so he was only like 5years old so he's sitting on mr.giffords lap.and just like NY other nite he had a life changing story and said ..dickie I see you goin over seas on a big ship..sure enough at 17 he was notified by the army him and his younger brother were drafted for the Korean War and spent 18months..

My Grandpa was a Koreon War vet and he rarely spoke of it. He said to me once it was the most terrifying thing he had even been through.

@@tendoking99 thank him for his service ..my dad was drafted too and did 18months right outta high school ..he told me of a story that the family had a psychic friend and he would break out n prophesied so one night after dinner my dad was around 12 I think and he went by the name dickie mr.gifford outta the blue said dickie I can see you going over seas on a big ship ! I couldn't even imagine I'd a been scared shitless!

@@ricatoni2 I would if he was still around. He died in 2003.

@@tendoking99 well I was thinkin so but wanted to be polite ..sorry ..I can't wait to see my grandparents ..can you only imagine the reunion in heaven ..how remarkable it will be ? And I'm sorry for your loss..

Their

Aaron yes!

Those guys was built different for sure

@@mostlymessingabout The pedants are revolting! You know what he said, so quit whining... he served his country & I for 1 thank him for his service... who cares if his surname isn't grammarly?

American imperialism is inspiring guys wow

Never happened. Fight me.

Thank you for posting this.

Here's another good documentary on the Korean War that you might also be able to use. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iIobfyaiAUU.html

And one more for you... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-68Qpscmh6Fw.html

Thank you. My father and uncles, one paternal, one maternal served in Korea.

🖤💗

That is quite a legacy! How 👏 awesome

Wasn’t worth it was it.

@Brenda Owens That's what yo mama said.

@@amanaman1277 why are you rude for !

The T-34-85 isn't that tough vs the M24 75mm

@@tacomas9602 The M24 Chaffee (Light Tank, M24) was just that, a light tank. It had light armor as it's design goal was to keep it under 20 tons in weight. It's 75mm gun was widely used in WWII, most notably in the M4 Sherman. In Korea, the M24 Chaffee did very poorly against the T-34-85. It's light armor and medium velocity gun was simply no match for the much heavier armor and the much more lethal high velocity 85mm gun on the T-34s.

@@stephenland9361 fast and very agile light recon tank like m24 chaffee do not supposed to fight medium tank like T-34-85 head-on

@@quanohong572 No fooling!! But early in the war, that's all the Americans had until the M26 Pershings showed up.

The "Easy Eight" was a pretty good match.

Fight me

​@@lexiheart6558Whose suppose to fight you??

Pershing's were good tanks that only saw very limited combat at the ended of the WW2 in the European theatre. The Soviets had better armor that they just didn't give to the North Koreans. JS2's and JS3's and some even better models.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 M26 Pershing lacked mobility, engine problems also. One of the key elements of a good tank, is mobility and M26 Pershing was very poor in that aspect. The decision to push M 26 in North Korea on the very narrow country roads up in the mountains was a very bad tactical error but McArthur wasn't a good general after all anyway, I am not surprised he did that.

@@pete4888 I'm sure you would've made far better decisions than McArthur.

@@sandman8496 I wouldn't have pushed M24 tanks against T34-85 not even T34 76. Why would I lose my tank crew with such stupid maneuver? And pushing M26 in the N Korea mountains with narrow roads and little infantry support, ready to be flanked. You have to see that as very bad decisions. Also have a look at Mc Arthur decision to deploy over 10 K Americans on Bataan Peninsula in 1942 without proper logistic and arty support - The result 66k Pilipinos and 10 k Americans was encircled and captured by Japanese. Another decision worth a "medal" of disgrace.

Yeah the figures are quite wrong. Also the T-34/85 certainly got more than 45mm of sloped armor which are rather figures of early T-34s. It actually got armor up to 90mm which certainly was a problem for M24 and even for the Sherman 76mm HV.

Our Great Helmsman, Chairman Biden, and The Party, will protect Tiawan with glorious revolutionary....you know....the thing.

Good luck getting your Shellback certificate, it stays in your file till you retire.

If he didnt put his smug face at the start of the videos

@@kimmosanky7353 but his music is glorious...

@@kimmosanky7353 Smug face? That's funny.

He specializes in ww2 and Nazis! Yeah the muzac rocks!

Mark Felton is the man.

China was not involved at all. When American troops reached the Chinese border, bombs entered China. What would you do if you are Chinese? China will not allow the United States to have wars around China. This is true for the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The split between North Korea and South Korea brought the two superpowers to meet, what do you say?

South Korea has not learned any lessons and likes to play with fire. It is difficult for the power of the United States to reach Northeast Asia, which is the limit of the United States. It is better to seek help from the United States than to seek help from China. China can fight a protracted war, and war depends on resources. Around China, China is invincible.

The United States will only bring war, not peace. The China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area will be established as soon as possible, and Asia is the future.

@@user-qp4eq1oj5r China plays with bioweapons. China is going to get crushed like the Germans when they try to take over with their military.

@Victoria VilnaAlthough seemingly peaceful on the outside, in reality we are still fighting an ideological war inside South Korea. There are still forces in South Korea who are trying to take the initiative by assimilating with communism like in the 50s. During the 6.25 Korean War, there were forces that tried to establish their own power by communizing the Korean Peninsula by borrowing the power of military aid from the Soviet Union. This is the current North Korean communist regime. Also, even today, there are such forces in South Korea, and it is true that these forces do not stop such attempts by borrowing the power of the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP is also projecting their influence inside South Korea to try to bring it under their influence. Most Koreans know and remember well what the US did to us after liberation from Japanese colonial rule. The United States has passed on technology to us, generously aided and, above all, shed their noble blood to defend freedom. I expect Americans to understand our situation. It is true that in our South Korean society, there are people who deceive people for their own achievement and are also brainwashed by them.

That's what yo mama said.

succulent

Anytime, South Korea is a close ally and just like our many other friends from the Pacific Islands to the Iberian Pennisula we always look after our friends. My great grandfather served as a navy captain during the war, and so if another war breaks out this time between China and Taiwan I've made a pledge to follow in his footsteps and serve in the Navy to defend Taiwan.

I bet a lot of North Korean POWs chose to stay in South Korea after the war.

Hang on a minute... 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇹🇷🇲🇫🇧🇪🇳🇱🇱🇺🇿🇦🇵🇭🇯🇴🇨🇴🇬🇭🇹🇭...there. The flags of all the _other_ nations that sent their young men to fight and die to protect South Korea. This doesn't include all the countries that sent medical and logistical support either. It was a U.N. effort. Not just an American one.

That's what yo mama said.

@Kid Fox That's what yo mama said.

Ata boy!!! 👍👍😴

I love those days at work

That's what yo mama said.

In tank talk that's called a "back scratch" when enemy personnel are on a tank and another friendly tank uses their machine guns to kill them off.

@ViridianG I believe it was a show about tanks in Vietnam where they talked about using flechette main gun rounds to do the same thing. The outside of the tank would have looked like it was covered in tomato paste after that.

It's kinda sad once you know the truths. Look at the 20 years in Afghanistan. Politicians meddle with other countries affair by sending young men to their early deaths. Found this interesting article on the Korean Civil War and now I'm sharing with yall. Approximately 150,000 troops from South Korea, the United States, and participating U.N. nations were killed in the Korean War, and as many as one million South Korean civilians perished. An estimated 800,000 communist soldiers were killed, and more than 200,000 North Korean civilians died. If U.S. had stayed out of the Korean war, Korea would be one. Was it worth it for U.S to lose all those lives? What did Americans gain? How does this question looks like now? You know, Korea was about to BE ONE before US stepped in. So one can also argue that it is the U.S who cause the death of thousands of Koreans. You may then argue: But South Koreans live much better lives than their counterparts in the north, so life would have been better if South Korea had won the war! Well, I am sorry to show you this GDP graph: The North Koreans had been always richer than their southern neighbors until the 1970s(The North has much less population but similar GDP). You may then ask: But the north was ruled by dictator! But if you do some research, you will surprisingly find that the South WAS too. Wars are never about good or evil, they are always rooted to national interests. People just painted their enemy into evil to justify their own actions. So what was the root cause of Korean War ? Division of the world by USSR and The U.S. They divided Korea into two for their own interests, also happened in Germany, Vietnam and so on. Just like what the British Empire did in India and Pakistan. Which almost guarantees wars between those two parts. So why would someone ask questions like this? Westerners were bombarded by negative informations from their “free” medias about China for decades. When they think about China, they firstly tell themselves China is bad, and then see China through this coloured lense so that they can never get a neutral view of China. --Mark Brown University’s Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The numbers, while conservatively estimated, are staggering. Brown’s researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them civilians. In addition to those killed by direct acts violence, the number of indirect deaths - those resulting from disease, displacement, and the loss of critical infrastructure - is believed to be several times higher, running into the millions. --Brown University’s The war in Afghan was never about 'counterterrorism'...it was all about business and using afghan as a cover for money laundering and enriching the huge military contractors and politicians, as well as proxy to destabilize the region to contain the likes of Iran, China, Russia etc. -Jeff L I'm still having trouble fathoming how a country (Afghanistan) with trillions of U.S. dollars in unextracted mineral, gem, and metal deposits is somehow still a "undeveloped" and poor country. -Joel Davis The US has oppression, exploitation of foreign countries and brainwashing of its own population down to an art. -chamade166

@@condorX2 shut up.

Umm Condor? No such war as good vs. evil? Ever heard of the nazis?

God Bless your Uncle Leon and vets like him.

oh they missed lots of battles alright, Battle of Poland, a follow up to the GTB in Italy, Anzio, Demyansk pocket and a hundred other battles on the Eastern Front. But they did pretty good for what they had budget for, also, they even have one ep about Vietnam i've never seen them show on Military channel, either.

Night vision devices make this a moot issue today.

@@clarenceconwell6183 night vision penetrates fog?

ROK FOREVER

The only feeling you should have is pity, that they were drafted to fight.

Yeah, that’s stupid. Oh yeah they were sooo great and about as noble as the Japanese had been. The Chinese and the North Korea dictatorship sucks, the people are just prisoners in that but they were never some noble effort or right in anyway. You’re defending them because you’re Chinese or like them and so want to see your people as not being evil then. But don’t worry, everyone defends Americas enemies while attacking America so you will get a lot of backing. People were annoyed America bombed Japan despite japan starting the war after we tried to make peace, then Massacring Asia, then torturing and killing our pows but people are like ‘hey, only what you did is an issue America. In every situation that’s true okay.’ China has been massacring its own people like North Korea has for a long time and has always had some of that mentality, so please make sure to defend them and they’re oh so noble efforts. The people were the ones who supported the communist dictatorship that killed so many of them during the many revolutions, the democratic leadership there also killed many but still less than the communist party. Don’t know if they could look right next to them at how well communism has worked for Russians but many of them starved or were sent to Gulags so not well.

So annoying is China. We do so much work to rescue China from the Japanese and boom China goes commie, does the standard commie thing of killing it’s own people in large quantities, and now they’re like one of our biggest enemies. It’s like how good the Soviet Union fell and boom another communist power god dang it. We need to stop liberating places, from the nazis, the Japanese, the Chinese and North Koreans. We get zero credit and a lot of hate and barely any support.

@@princeofcupspoc9073 They were "volunteer" and not like the current PLA. You wont survive a minute in in that war with this useless internet woke young generation.

Your kudos to the NK and Chicom military show you're a contemporary Sierra Hotel. If you equate American, UN forces, & SK forces, w/ the Communist forces and political strategy then your ignorance is appalling. That's as polite as I can be to you. Jeez, that's pathetic bathos.

내가 최선을 리벤 벨 네이버 지원 네 윌슨 내 음악이나 저번에 해드리고 留守番医療 把我給一個 而 只會 哪一天才肯給慢慢才會 台北 為拿著沒那個 恩嗎 嗎被 的嗎 為了省那一隻 嗯為了 一咧 人民三了為止 嗯好 嗯那就是沒有 嗯 嗯

Really wished they made more seasons of this show and Dogfights and Shootouts and Battle 360.

These ads are nothing like the main gun sights on an M-41. Ads are play-like games.

on how NOT to fight a 'war' thanks to MacArthur.

What's excellent about it? That the US couldn't win decisively?

That is truly amazing. I am glad your father lived long enough to see his son deployed to the same areas as he was. It is a legacy if there ever was. Salute your service as well as Dad.

Yet you still manage to say T35/84. Not sure if I trust you

@@yordobelps Doh! Corrected.

Yawn. We can all read Dickipedia too.

@@HO-bndk I prefer primary sources. Bore off, sad lad.

With HVAP ammunition I think you'd be correct most of the time (I don't think it would penetrate the frontal slope 100 percent of the time at that range but most of the time I bet it would).

Is it cuz their Hispanic at least most a piece of history of that is not to be aknowleged 21:30

Or am I wrong

the pershing was a much bigger heavier tank than the others...people forget the British Centurion tank ..it was better than any of the American tanks...could climb hills the others simply couldn't better armour better gun.

@@mottthehoople693 the Pershing and centurion were good tanks just like the T-34/85

@@alexwest2573 the centurion could outclimb any of the other tanks apparently

@@mottthehoople693 yes I’ve heard that said about the Churchill tanks as well

Great! Anything to say about the video, or is this all about you?

@@princeofcupspoc9073 Oh dear how sad never mind.

@@princeofcupspoc9073 The comment was not about me ,but my partners Uncle who served in Korea.Chill out princess.

A brilliant tank.

@@terryharris1291 Why did He feel the need to be rude? You tell us, it’s an open forum and for one was glad to hear about your relative. My step father was also in Korea. A tough fight!

This is greatest tank battles by history channel. I watched them when originally aired.

Beer bottle VC enough said

sure it will be. This is why i don't trust the bible to b e the literal word of God! For 2,000 years thousands of hands have been all over it, adding this part and that part and just removing stuff they didn't like (like the book of Enoch, for one thing). Ever hear a rumor after it's been told to 2 or 3 people? At some point it'll lose the original details, become exaggerated with a lot of things added that were never part of the story. Now imagine that same thing happening for 2,000 years?

Not so 'FoRmIdAbLe' in WWII, were they, Wehraboo?

@@user-fx9rw7xc1e Don't you know what the word "formidable" actually means?

By the time they got to Korea I'm surprised they had any teeth left

They fought for American imperialism and capitalism

@@Basedlocation "fought for American imperialism and capitalism" Then ignored North Korea and China building military forces on the South Korean border during 1949. And then ignores North Korea's whole invasion of South Korea in 1950! But American imperialism

I know you're not , but let's not denigrate those , like my uncle Kia mid+3/68 , tail end of bloody TET , 2wks b-4 my 11th bday , in NAMs Central Highlands where uncle died .

What system would you want ? I was with the USMC stationd @ Okinawa for almost 2 yrs. , And , to me , there's no place I'd rather be , and live , than the Capitalist , Imperialist US of A !! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!​@@Basedlocation

Great quote!!

That's what yo mama said.

That's what yo mama said.

Because they were up against an inferior tank. Put up against the German Tiger tanks in WWII and they were unfortunately, useless.

@@noobsoff-road It's not just that, they were in M4A3E8's (Jumbo) which had MUCH more frontal armor than the first sherman variants in WW2.

@@noobsoff-road The T-34/85 was not an inferior tank for the time. It was a good late WWII medium tank. The Sherman wasn't useless against Tigers. Sure, it wasn't on the same level, but how likely was a Sherman to run into a Tiger? It was much more likely to run into a Mk4, which it was perfectly capable of dealing with.

@@ORYG1N That's true and a good point, but the earlier Sherman variants were also going up against earlier Mk3's and 4's, which it was on par with. The M4A3E8 was fielded in 1944, so both it and the T-34/85 were comparable late WWII tanks. I never said the Sherman was perfect, but when it was used by good crews against comparable medium tanks it performed well.

@@genxer1 In reality, the 'Sherman' series WAS a good series of tank-models. They were just too light to fight "duels" with Panthers and Tigers. People who talk smack against Sherman tanks, don't know what they're talking-about.

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Wasn't he present at the Battle of Inchon?

A screwed up commander.

PROPAGANDA VILLAGE wasn't its proper name, that was the name given by the American propaganda machine

"Mission was to survive long enough to make to defensive positions along the Imjin River; create defensive obstacles; and die in place until re-inforcements arrived. Our B Co was tasked with the destruction of Freedom Bridge; then die in place" Your use of extreme hyperbole here is noticed by any veteran and anyone with any sense of history. 1990s heavy combat in Korea huh? smh... Just be proud of your service, no need to BS people

​@@domingochavez2552 Were you there? Do you know what he's talking about?

That's what yo mama said.

That's what yo mama said.